Oxford Street 'home to three of the most dangerous pedestrian crossings in the UK'

 
Dangerous: shoppers on Oxford street
Josh Pettitt3 June 2015

Oxford Street is the most dangerous part of the country for pedestrians crossing the road, new figures reveal.

The busy shopping district is home to not one, but three of the top 10 most dangerous crossings in the country, according to data released by the Department for Transport.

Forty-five pedestrians have been left seriously injured after collisions with cars, buses and lorries at the three junctions along Oxford Street which attracts around 200million people a year.

The intersection at St Holles shares the unwanted record of 18 reported injuries between 2005 and 2013 with a pedestrian crossing in Coventry’s London Road.

The junction of Oxford Street with St Davies has seen 15 reported cases while the intersection with Duke Street has had 12 reported injuries of pedestrians being hit by motorists in the eight-year period.

In December 2009 businessman Tom Kearney suffered severe brain trauma and punctured both his lungs after being flung 20ft through the air by a No.73 bus in Oxford Street.

The married father-of-two from Hampstead north London, has previously campaigned for the street to be pedestrianised and has also called for a 15mph speed limit for buses to be brought in. Neither measure has been introduced.

Research in 2011 by the Greater London Authority found that Oxford Street’s accident rate was 35 times the average for London Streets. Westminster borough saw 149 pedestrian deaths between 1999 and 2011, according to a BBC study.

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